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🌿 The pronunciation of today is:
🗣 Theatre

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🔺 English with Becky
🇬🇧 Accent: British
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🌿 How to expand your vocabulary
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🔺 Coach by Rebecca
🇨🇦 Accent: Canadian
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Level: Elementary~Intermediate
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#IELTS #Vocabulary #Video
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🎧 How to improve and develop Effectively?
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Level: Elementary~Intermediate
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#Listening #progress
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📚 The Lottery

By Shirley Jackson
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#Book #Story #Reading #Listening #PDF
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📖 The Lottery

By Shirley Jackson
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#Book #Story #Reading #PDF
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🎙 The Lottery

By Shirley Jackson
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#Story #Listening
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🎧 How to Improve Listening Skill Effectively?
(without spending extra time)

Level: Elementary~Intermediate
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#Listening #Skill

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Money
 
Discussion Questions:

1. Which do you enjoy more: earning money or spending money?

2. How do you feel after spending a large amount of money?

3. Do you save enough money? What savings goals do you have?

4. How do you prefer to pay for purchases? With cash, a credit card, or some other payment method? Why?

5. What was the first job or task you ever received money for? How much were you paid?

6. How often do you think about money? Is money a stressful part of life?

7. What does 'money doesn't grow on trees' mean? Do you agree?

8. Is there something you regret buying? Why?

9. Did you receive an allowance from your parents when you were a child? What did you usually do with it?

10. What would you tell someone if they asked how much you get paid?

11. Do you have any cryptocurrency such as bitcoin? Where can you use that kind of money?

12. If a young person wanted to know what career they should pursue to make as much money as possible, what would you recommend they do?

13. Do you and your friends lend money to each other? How much are you willing to lend or borrow?

14. Imagine you have won ten million dollars. Who will you tell? What will you do with the money?

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💎 Money quotes:

1. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
--Zig Ziglar

2. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
--Jim Rohn

3. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.
--J. Paul Getty

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💰 Money quotes
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Dear friends,
This week will be new topic of weekly English chat. We’ll have interesting discussions and drink coffee or tea.✨☕️🫖

🔸 Topic: Migration

🔸 Fee: 🆓

Questions we will discuss:

1. Which country is much more better for a living? (in your opinion)

2. Do many people emigrate from your country? Where do most of them go?

3. Why do people leave your country? What are they looking for?

4. Have you considered emigrating in your young period?

5. Do you feel pressure when you live long period abroad (in another country)?

6. Is it complicated to be a foreigner in your country?

7. What challenges do you think an immigrant faces in a new country?

8. Some people believe there should be free migration throughout the world (no borders). What would be the result of anybody being able to go anywhere?

9. Do you think immigrants should learn to speak the language of their new country? How well do they need to speak it?

10. Do countries have benefits from immigrants and refugees or just problems?

11. High economic level country is equal 🟰 safe and good for a living country?

12. If someone you knew were planning on coming to your country, what would you tell them to expect?

13. What are the 2 or 3 most important things that people could do to make the process of coming to a new country better?

14. Why did you (your family) choose to come to this country / city instead of somewhere else?

15. Do you miss your motherland / hometown (where you were from)?

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🌎 How to expand your vocabulary 🌎
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Motherland (n.)
- The country where you were born or where your family came from.

Hometown (n.)
- The city or town where one was born or grew up.

Considered (adj.)
- Having been thought about carefully.

Emigrate (v.)
- Means to leave one's country to live in another.

Immigrate (v.)
- Is to come into another country to live permanently.

Migrate (v.)
- Is to move, like birds in the winter. The movement of a person or people from one country, locality, place of residence, etc., to settle in another.


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📚 Discussion question
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Books.
 
1. Did someone read to you when you were a child?

2. Who's your all-time favorite book character?

3. Who's your favorite author of all time? Your favorite book by them?

4. What genres do you love?

5. Are there any genres you dislike?

6. Do you prefer old books or new ones?

7. What was your favorite book when you were a child?

8. Would you like more time to read books?

9. Do you like to write reviews on Amazon or Goodreads?

10. How do you choose what books you want to read?

11. Do you prefer to read one book at a time or several at once?

12. Have any books you’ve read had an important effect on your life? If so, how?

13. Do you prefer to read paper books or digital books? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each format?

14. What kinds of books do you usually read? – The classics? Detective novels? Historical novels? Biographies? Travel? Science-fiction? Non-Fiction?

15. How do you choose the books you’re going to read?
– Favourite authors? Recommendations from friends? Browsing in bookstores or online?



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Useful phrases.


Front cover
- The outer front part of a book


Browse
- To look at the goods in a shop without wanting to buy any particular thing


Paperback
- A book with a paper cover (cheaper than hardback)


Blurb
- A short description giving information about a book placed usually on the back cover


A bookworm
- Someone who reads a lot


Hardback
- A book that has a rigit cover


Memoirs
- A kind of writing that tells someone's memories


A short story
- A fictional narrative written in prose, which is shorter than a novel.


Autobiography
- Writing about a person's life written by that person


Readable
- Easy or interesting to read


A chapter
- A section of a book


A review
- An article in a newspaper or magazine that gives an opinion about a new book, play, film etc


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💎 Paradox of poverty
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Questions:

1. What is poverty? (in your opinion)

2. Do you believe problem of education is a key factor in addressing the paradox of poverty? Why or why not?

3. Why do so many people in the world live below the poverty line?

4. What do you think living below the poverty line is like?

5. Is it possible for the world to make poverty disappear?

6. How can technology be both helpful and challenging for people experiencing poverty?

7. Can you share examples of programs or initiatives that aim to break the cycle of poverty in your community or country?

8. Aristotle said: "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." What do you think?

9. Why does poverty exist in rich countries like the USA, UK?

10. Do you think cultural factors influence the experience of poverty? If so, how?

11. Is poverty different in rich countries than in poor ones?

12. How would the world be different if there was no poverty?

13. Can you think of instances (situation) where economic growth did not lead to a reduction in poverty?

14. How might discrimination and inequality impact (influence) the experiences of those living in poverty?

15. In your opinion what should I do every day that really change situation with poverty in my country, small district? Is it possible or no?


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